By Simon Lincoln Reader Yesterday Beijing24 took a painful one. It wasn’t the usual sloppy remark or outrage porn or crisis acting passed off as analytical commentary, but the logical graduation of the effluent Gillian Schutte once composed (after wading in) or the genius trickery of Marius Roodt posing as Shelley Garland that cost the […]
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SOS Steve on Sunday 28 February 2021 Greetings my fellow happy taxpayers, Today, and the previous two days in South African history are quite some days. On 27 February 1881 the Boer forces defeated the British at the battle of Majuba, and on the same day in 1900, Boer General Piet Cronje surrendered his army […]
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by Hannes Wessels An acquaintance, having read my book, ‘A Handful of Hard Men’ which covered the Rhodesian war, the SAS and the political context of the time, penned a letter to former British Foreign Secretary Lord David Owen, which is printed below. To his credit, Lord Owen has given us permission to publish his […]
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SOS Steve on Sunday 21 February 2021 Greetings my fellow strugglers, Well, that’s St Valentine’s Day once again done and dusted, the umpteenth time in five decades that I have ignored the day, and for a very good reason too. In my idle but idyllic youth in Umtali Rhodesia (now Mutare Zimbabwe) it was a […]
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by Hannes Wessels As far as I can ascertain I don’t have any British blood running through my veins. My family has been in Africa for almost 400 years so there may be some Bushman or Hottentot blood but no British. Despite that, and despite being a descendent of Afrikaners interned in Boer War […]
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In the same week that Rand Merchant Bank’s CEO James Formby warned that the country’s recovery will be beset by another wave of skills immigration, South Africa’s erratic Minister of Finance decided to belch into Twitter. “Increasingly,” the strange fellow started, “it seems to me, but maybe obvious, that our non-racial dream is not embraced […]
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SOS Steve on Sunday 14 February 2021 Greetings my fellow Valentinos and Valentinas, There is no doubt that you romantic types today are going to have an absolute ball, perhaps hit the beach while it’s still open and have a toast with some champagne hidden inside the cream soda can. A game of golf with […]
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by Hannes Wessels Just recently I have received a flurry of emails and messages signaling alarm at the contents of the Expropriation Bill which is soon to go before the South African Parliament where it seems certain to become law. I have no doubt that the DA will launch a spirited attack on the provisions, […]
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SOS Steve on Sunday 7 February 2021 Greetings my fellow surfers of the sea and web, One does sincerely hope that you have taken full advantage of the recent openings of surf and turf, the turf in this case being the liquid service at bars, restaurants, taverns, shebeens and golf clubhouse 19th holes. I’m sure […]
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by Hannes Wessels As South Africa gathers steam and speed on the road to ruin a sense of hopelessness is taking grip. Where is the opposition the country so desperately needs? I feel terribly sorry for John Steenhuisen who speaks little but sense and is trying so hard to rally his troops, but I fear […]
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